A few things before you read this… First of all, I am trying to make this a really good story so the breaks in between the chapters may be long but I hope they will be worth it. I watch both the dubbed anime and read the manga so I do intertwine the words between English and Japanese. The two I interchange the most are hanyou/half demon and miko/priestess. If you read this and have any comments-whether good or bad- let me know. As well if you have any questions on why I put something in here go ahead and ask. I don't bite, I promise.
A Hanyou's journal
A young girl was walking along a road with her younger brother when she came across a tattered hut with several gravestones next to them. She bent down to read one of the gravestones, "Inuyasha, a tragic end to a loved hanyou." The girl read.
"Hanyou? Isn't that a half demon in the myths that we have to read in school?" the boy said looking toward the abandoned hut.
"Yeah, I think so. I didn't think they were real though. This must be an old hut." The girl replied.
Both walked into the hut to find dishes all over the place and wood that marked where a fire place once stood. The walls had holes and scratches throughout them and the tables and chairs were all knocked over and some were even broken. It was evident that whoever lived here put up a fight before being forces to leave. Along the wall was a shelf that was marked 'books and recipes'. Both went through each one finding pages of different recipes that had many ingredients added and crossed out. "What were they doing?" the boy asked flipping through each.
"Looks like someone here was a cook." The girl whispered. Then she saw a huge dusty book at the end of the shelf and went to grab it.
As she whipped it off, the boy looked over her shoulder. "What does the cover say?"
"'Inuyasha's'…" she had a hard time reading the last bit, that was evidence enough to show that it was there for a long time. "'Journal'." She finally figured it out.
"There's more under the text of the title. 'Do Not Read.' Maybe we shouldn't read it." The boy said to her.
"What is he going to do come back from the dead and kill us?" she asked and then opened it up to find the front cover have a torn picture of a girl wearing the same fashion worn in today's time. "This clothing looks so new and the photo looks so old." The young girl announced.
"She looks pretty. Who is that man next to her?"
"Look at the ears, he is a hanyou, my best bet is that he is the Inuyasha guy that is dead outside. But who are the rest?" She said looking at several other people standing next to them. All of them were smiling and waving into the camera.
"How should I know?"
The girl flipped to the next page to find the pages filled with writing. She started to read the first page….
"I am writing this in order to pass the time. This is a hard thing to write and at certain times I may have to stop in order to catch my breath. Be prepared before you read my journal for this will be a long and probably very depressing story. If you are looking for happiness, I am sorry for I am having a hard enough time writing this much without stopping to cry. This, I am hoping will keep me strong through this tough time with out my beloved miko by my side. I have to stay strong for I am half human. Let me start off at the beginning and then you will realize why I am hurting so much…..
Grey clouds loomed over head with hints of rain at any moment and lightning striking of in the distance.
"Kagome, hang in there." Inuyasha yelled- Kagome was bleeding everywhere. The scene happened too fast for him to say what happened but all he knew was Kagome was almost dead due to Naraku's attack.
"Please hurry Inuyasha" Kagome said as she started coughing up blood. Worry overtook her voice.
"Damn, Naraku prepare to die" He said as he used his tesuiga and swung it at him. Never before did he swing his sword this hard. If he didn't know better while the sword used wind scar like he wanted, spears of adamant went at the same time. He stared for a few seconds, he knew he must have learned something but that was the last thing on his mind as he heard more coughing behind him. As soon as he knew Naraku was dead, he turned around to find the women that he fell in love with for three years now was near death.
"Kagome stay with me, I will bring you to Kaede's hut right away" he yelled kneeling down to her.
"Inuyasha I don't think I will make it, I am afraid that this time, I can't be strong enough." Kagome said as a tear fell down her face.
"Inuyasha we got the jewel!!" Shippo said as he flew over on Kilala.
"Well actually I have it!!" Miroku said with a big grin
"That was a new attack, what made you decide to use both attacks at the same time like that?" questioned Sango looking at the scars in the ground made from the sword.
Unknown to his friends, Inuyasha didn't hear one word they said all he knew was that today was not going to get better.
"She, she, she is going to…." He couldn't say anymore. He knew he would never see her smiling face again nor the way she always found the good in life even while they were going through the roughest of times.
"WHAT??" Shippo said tears swelling in his face as he jumped up on a kneeling Inuyasha. "You're lying right? Please tell me this is a joke?"
"So-so-sorry Shippo, bu…but I doubt I will make it. Please be strong" Kagome managed, it hurt to talk, breathe and at one point it hurt to keep her eyes open. When she saw her friends looking down on her; she knew she would be missed.
"Kagome don't talk like that" Inuyasha yelled at here, "don't lie, tell everyone that you will be fine"
"Let's leave them to be alone for a bit" Miroku whispered, he knew there was no way to help her.
Sango nodded in agreement and grabbed Shippo, who was crying and screaming, and left Inuyasha and Kagome alone to talk for the last time.
"Please Kagome; I won't be able to go on without you here. I failed you, I failed your family, and I failed my life"
This hit Kagome hard when he said his life; she knew she would have to make him promise something, "Inu…Inuyasha please, can you pro…promise me that you will go on living with your life. That…that you can live your life happily and settle down? Maybe you can find a wife and have a family."
"No there is no way I could do that; you were the one I wanted, no one else." He yelled pulling her closer to him.
"Please, don't worry about me, go take care of Shippo and the others and find someone to be your wife" she felt so weak the blood was coming faster, she knew it wouldn't be much longer.
"Fine, for you I will go on living. But please promise me one thing as well" Inuyasha could barley hold the tears back.
"What is it?"
"Promise me that you will wait for me, that may be hundreds of years later but I need this promise that no matter what happens after death, you will wait for me and be the first to greet me after death."
She smiled in agreement and then said "wouldn't want it any other way"
"One more thing Kagome, I need to ask you this, I was going to ask you this for almost a few months now but I was always afraid of the answer…" Inuyasha stopped there and didn't know how to continue.
She looked at him in surprise 'something he needs to ask?' she thought
"Even though it is too late now, do you love me? Would you have stayed with me after we killed Naraku?"
She smiled, she knew he liked her and she only wished that he asked earlier. "Yes, I always have. I wish you had said so sooner because, Inuyasha…I love you. Do you love me?" she couldn't believe that she finally said it.
"I love you too" he said, his eyes welling with tears. They then embraced for the last time, giving each other a farewell kiss.
"I will wait for ever for you" she said as she closed her eyes, and her breathing went down to nothing.
"And I will wait until that day to see you" and then for the second time out of the three years that everyone knew Inuyasha, he started to cry. Miroku came out of the woods to pray for Kagome as Shippo, Sango and Inuyasha cried for her.
"She changed everyone's life" Miroku said with a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.
Then something miraculous happened instead of the sky raining the sky became clear and sunny, and as Inuyasha looked up, a rainbow appeared. Shippo looked up to see what Inuyasha was looking up and then smiled when he saw a rainbow.
"This is Kagome's sign that everything will be fine" Inuyasha said sniffling 'even though I feel like my heart has been ripped into a thousand pieces.' He thought…...
Now that you know the basics you now know why this will be hard to write, but I feel that I must write this to keep my sanity…. At least with all of my friends here, I am not alone. Now I must stop here, this page is getting soaked with my tears and for this I need to go. I will write more about what happened on a later date…."
Both children looked at each other and then scrambled to get to the next entry. Living in the year 2,000, everything mentioned in here was only seen in cartoons and in myths. The fact that this was a real part in history was enough to make there skin crawl and they wanted to read more.